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A collection of related stories that deal with the anxiety, pain, and ennui of addiction and withdrawal. Drain Songs gathers five stories and a novella focused on the many trials of modern life-addiction and depression, mania and disorder, attempts and failure at keeping the worst at bay.

A crime novel loosely based on the masses and songs of the 17th century Flemish composer Pierre de la Rue. Masses and Motets is a tale composed of four basic interwoven threads, corresponding to the four-part choral writing of Pierre de la Rue's service music.

With sharp wit and precise diction, Darcie Dennigan calls on and works in the lineage of great modernist women, from Clarice Lispector to Marie Redonnet. Slater Orchard is thoroughly contemporary in its themes, however, evincing dire questions of rampant capitalism and climate change.

Recounts the story of the 167th Infantry Regiment of the WWI Rainbow Division from their recruitment to their valiant service on the bloody fields of eastern France in the climactic final months of World War I.

Tells the story of the greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman Islands. The story has been passed through generations for over two centuries. Details vary depending on who is doing the telling, but all refer to this momentous maritime event as the Wreck of the Ten Sail.

Alabama is blessed with a staggering diversity of tree species. Trees of Alabama offers an accessible guide to the most notable species occurring widely in the state, forming its renewable forest resources and underpinning its rich green blanket of natural beauty.

Offers an introduction to key issues in the study of war and memory that examines significant conflicts in twentieth-century Europe. David Messenger argues that in order to understand the history of twentieth-century Europe, we must first appreciate and accept how different societies and cultures remember their national conflicts.

Broadly considers Native American religion and ritual in the eastern North America and focuses on practices that altered and used a vast array of material items as well as how physical spaces were shaped by religious practices.

Across a host of issues such as the advent of fake news, climate-science denial, and Bernie Madoff's appeal to investors, people can be astonishingly gullible. This book provides a scrupulous account that overturns many commonplace notions about how we can best detect lies and falsehoods.

An examination of the social and cultural repercussions of Jewish emigration from Poland to Argentina in the 1920s and 1930s. Mariusz Kalczewiak has constructed a multifaceted and in-depth narrative that sheds light on marginalized aspects of Jewish migration and enriches the dialogue between Latin American Jewish studies and Polish Jewish Studies.

Applies a translingual and transmodal framework informed by feminist rhetorical practice to three distinct case studies that demonstrate women using unique and effective rhetorical strategies in political, religious, and artistic contexts.

In this landmark biography, Canter Brown Jr. makes evident the extent of Henry Bradley Plant's influences throughout North, Central, and South America as well as his role in the emergence of integrated transportation and a national tourism system. Brown brings this important but understudied figure in American history to the foreground.

Argentina values the perception that it is a country of European immigrants. This book traces the origins of what some white Argentines mischaracterize as a "black disappearance" by delving into the intimate lives of black women and explaining how they contributed to the making of a "white" Argentina.

A charming, humorous, and colorful coming of age memoir. Bay Boy is a collection of essays by award-winning young adult author Watt Key that chronicles his boyhood in Point Clear, Alabama. During his childhood, Point Clear was a sleepy resort community, deserted in the winter, with a considerable population of working-class residents.

Published serially in the spiritualist journal Banner of Light in 1860, Cosella Wayne, or Will and Destiny is the first coming-of-age novel to depict Jews in the United States and transforms what we know about the history of early American Jewish literature.

Offers an insightful history and analysis of James Dobson's rise to fame, his effect on American evangelical culture, and subsequent descent from relevance. Extensively researched, Lovdal Stephens has scoured through Dobson's books, articles, and other materials in order to explore how evangelicals defined and defended the traditional family.

Addresses issues in Caribbean history and historical archaeology such as freedom, frontiers, urbanism, postemancipation life, trade, plantation life, and new heritage. This collection moves beyond plantation archaeology by expanding the knowledge of the diverse Caribbean experiences from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries.

A peer-reviewed journal of theatre history and scholarship published annually since 1981 by the Mid-America Theatre Conference.

Offers a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the constant presence of war in our everyday lives. Philip Beidler investigates the assimilation and pervasive presence of the idea of war in popular culture, the impulses behind the making of art out of war, and the debatably aimless trajectories of war itself.

The first book to capture and preserve the inside story of the exclusive brotherhood that manned the front lines of the Cold War. Featuring interviews from seventeen veteran submariners, Standing Watch offers the perspective of the submariners themselves - lending them a voice and paying homage to their service.

Addresses new approaches to studying computational processes within the growing field of digital rhetoric. While computational code is often seen as value-neutral and mechanical, this volume explores the underlying, and often unexamined, modes of persuasion this code engages.

Celebrated by both the Black Mountain poets in the '50s and '60s and the Language poets in the '70s and '80s, Larry Eigner's poems occupy an important place in American poetry and poetics. This book gathers some of the most intimate, personal writing on life and the art of poetry by this crucial figure in late twentieth-century American letters.

Positions the works of key gangsta rap artists, as well as the controversies their work produced, squarely within the law-and-order politics and popular culture of the 1980s and 1990s to reveal a profoundly complex period in American history when the meanings of crime and criminality were incredibly unstable.

Addresses emerging biotechnologies with prodigious potential to benefit humankind but that are also fraught with ethical consequences. James Bradley guides discussions of the thorny issues resulting from the development of new biotechnologies. He also highlights the responsibilities of scientists to conduct research in an ethical manner.

A revealing saga detailing the economic, familial, and social bonds forged by Indian trader George Galphin in the early American South. A native of Ireland, George Galphin arrived in South Carolina in 1737 and quickly emerged as one of the most proficient deerskin traders in the South.

As part of Great Depression relief projects started in the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) sponsored massive archaeological projects across Oklahoma. This book revisits and updates WPA-funded archaeological research on key Oklahoma mound sites.

The first book-length study of schooner-based pearling, this book explores the floating station system and the men who developed and employed it. Steve Mullins focuses on the Clark Combination, a syndicate led by James Clark, Australia's most influential pearler.